description of oxford university I 1 IT Y nally nairy WARD nemi MEMI fit in ig near to ard erd oxford I 1 felt the he zeal zeil goin going up inie thermon leter a and id dusky dusig shadows of olden 1 histories istenes began to ailse crisp I 1 had a distinct octura of tile the place in fit my mind mina nt at least of the university I 1 had fancied it to be a group of buildings oine some eight or ten tell in number opening upon a it common front but unlike the cotton factory style etyle of architecture prevails in new england en alard colleges I 1 I 1 had no very distinct idea of heir their number or extent but a clear impression that more or fewer tile tiie they vere were grouped together upon some one spot accordi accordingly gly I 1 inquired with innocent simau city of a gentleman next to me in what part pirt of the town the university buil bull buildings dinis were and was answered promptly in every part they are acre scattered all over the llie aty city I 1 imagine then a city of 1500 2500 not nott with narrow streets and continuous houses bouses and shops il ike ike commercial aties nor att ilke like a rural city cit nil wil full nril of or bards ars and gardel gardei cardeno but distinct brou from either and peculiar a city of castles casties aud ard palaces the university comprises twenty distinct col leggo and slid five fire bails halls the colleges col coi leges legee ure are lilg their own on rights tights bulWin buildings got grounds grou lids revenues revell yevell tes laws and alid effi cers cerp the til hallart hallare not incorporated or endowed end ovied with estates eh tates but in it other oilier respects are not materially diss diff different erent trent from the colleges here liere then are twenty five suites bultes of build 1 distributed ghost tile the cil ell city v you yon must not for a moment imagine inn ins agine ogine a strait sided bald buld five fire story building arx 1 x ercie e all such brick hrick parallelograms from your thought and call tip up imenes of castles les palaces F ps 8 ornate callene gallene and add and too of fio tio most e the buildings ol 01 neg Meg magdalen dalen daien college cover corer eleven eleva elava acres and of gardens and decorated grounds there ure are one hundred acres more christ church collego Coll coil gi is much amra ci extensive wall maii mii mil vou you would suppose yourself under tile tiie battlements of an old warlike castle tim tile front lice of the tile wall is four hundred feet with turrets bastions bas tlona tiona and a huge octagonal tower for a gateway the college buildings are arranged in systems of or quadrangles called familiarly quads thus a central plat of ground ii i i enclosed on every side tide by the magnificent and continuous college structures running four hundred by about two hundred and sixty feel reel and this forms the great quadrangle A huge gateway opens open out of this into pother another such quad quadrangle rangi name named I 1 the Pec kwater but of less dimensions and the call can quadrangle ogain opens out of this the buildings buil bull jinga are of dlf dif different forent styles of ture lura indeed christ church college represents almost ha the history of architecture from the times of the tile saxons to sir christopher wren and the diversities and con contrasts traits of architecture increase the impression of vastness and end endless lesii lesil extent it was vacation and slid the buildings were for the most part vacant tile the frank fraid and gay face of my guide seemed a charm to open doors doers seldom open to visitors had I 1 come to oxford to take an honorary lion ilon degree I 1 should have failed to see ece much that was shown to me an inspection of the tha kitchen kitchens 1 butteries and dining halls balla and a rehearsal of the habits of both students and professors satisfied me that there was most excellent drill of the animal man whatever bebel the moral and intellectual development tile tiie plump jovial rubie ruble rubicund und protestors protectors prot prof estors of arcsine were obligingly communicative giving savory explanations of everything that seems strange to me they courteously proffered me a complimentary mutton chop and give me a knowing laugh when I 1 declined beer and wine as articles that I 1 never employed A tiling thing more utterly inconceivable than a deliberate rejection of good wine and beer could not be told to all an oxford butler at christ church college kitchen I 1 was shown an enormous gridiron nearly five feet square formerly used before the introduction of rances ranges 1 could not but imagine a fancy heretic broiling upon it like a shrunk robin they seemed hurt at tit tile the suga suggestion estion assured me that it had never served such uses uses usen and swung swung it aside by its chain which suspended it as if the th a associations of such a relic had been ungenerously offended when we speak of dining halls pray dismiss all modern haili halli ot 0 hotel saloons from your mind summon lip up rather tile tila noblest cathedral like apartment of the tile highest architectural embellishments impressive by its very space and hung often profusely with portraits and pictures you would suppose upon entering that you siw saw a table stretched in a ar gothic church or in some picture cal eal callery lery the hall of lesus jesus college is thirty by sixty feet in dimensions with an arched arlthea cel cei ceiling ling designed by sir christopher wren T at bf new college is seventy eight by thirty five feet wadham college hall is eighty two by thirty five and thirty seven feet 1 high higl the tita hall of christ church college Is 13 one hundred aud and fifty feet det in length forty feet wide and fifty feet high havil bavil having lp I 1 about one hundred bundred and twenty pictures upon its wails walla these quite put to shame my ignoble ideas of college dining halls halis es as the larders and butteries did the tho fare of college commons these colleges resemble american institutions in the fact that they are resorts of students that they have corps of tutors and professors rooms and dormitories libraries and halls balls but a visitor wandering through them in vacation would 0 uld think them lite literary hotels as in la man many respects they tiley reail reali really yare are one wite who has lias only seen the pl phia phin lin tin stone of american building buildings uri uti carved and scarcely chiA chiseled bled will be struck with the beautiful carving and decorations in stone the tile cornices cornicks cor nices were nere not wood wool painted like stone but stone curled and carved as ff ir in olden times cutting stones had llad been the tile easiest of all occupations we am are ac decorations in paste in fit wax in plaster in wood t we do not think itil ite itT strange to sea picture frames wreathed with vines or furniture sculptured into flowers and fruits but the time a and n d exlie expense nse required for boiking stone lias bas forbid such ornaments in ill america with the exception of execrable airving on oil lamentable gravestones that I 1 cannot but keep nilve alive a sense of pain in the spectator I 1 as long as they last lost I 1 t in ill oxford in alt all the colleges and other public buildings stone would seem to be accounted co tinted as almost unseemly the dohrwa doorways Ys the window sills and caps the cornices cornicks cor nices the capitals the pediments sediments ments are profusely decorated grotesque head lions faces satyrs distorted human faces birds flowers leaves rosettes seize lipon upon every projection of the gothic buildings building I 1 where the buildings ren represented resented greek architecture they were decorated more severe bevere severely beverely lr but with scarcely less profusion of carving I 1 was even more delih delighted delighted ted with the grounds and walks than with the twili twilight glit gilt seclusion odthe of tho the cloi ciol cloistered bared rooms I 1 sat down in tile recess of the window in one of the students rooms and looked out into an exquisite nook with a large larae mound not unlike some of our conical hills bills in the tile rolling lands of the west punted glinted with nith sll ali shrubs abs and tries trees trees trems to the very top Is lo there any anything thing wre bewitching than to look tip up beneath tho the branches of trees upon the tho ascent of or a hill UP the grass was like a pit pil pile a of betat thick even deeply green and with a crisp succulent look that made vou you feel that cebu ad nezzar had net sn so bad a ilet set after ril the grounds were wera laid IW out with parterres par terres of flowers clumps of trees tras gravelled travelled gravel led wahl walli artfully traced to prodica produce the he utmost illusion vines and upon or every overy unsightly subject ind sulon silon along the stone fenee fence that t t furious I orious sheet of ivy that everywhere ia in england walis walls und and lowers towers in vegetable table tahle emerald emer alo alc ill in tiute delicious coverts converts co verts hopped about iab reci seclusion reclusion tison or chatted with coch other in 1 doti pou P sueh such AM f jeany jenny lind inight be to sieg sing sin sie to lir sleeping fie ole i crade cr r to it licking frolicking ine ire chad 1 t it i a very pandle of or xi obe obb ote seemed like an antediluvian legend ath sat gat t asi and dreamed luthe inthe slumberous ti ik nol noi was I 1 flattered bv the painful contort art asi which my memory supplied sup plied piled of american colleges bollei col lei lel with frigid rooms without gardens or secluded walks with grounds undecorated except by chip chips ashes and slid the tile dank dauk and droppings of paper rags and various fragments of feasts feasta which may often be found beneath arr the windows among rank and watery weeds on tho the th neglected side of college buildings where eairy every sid gid side 0 js is neglected but if all tile ilia stori stories s lt old told me m be b true or the half halt of them cloistered rooms ar aro are noi not n necessarily productive of profound pro lound iru itu study dy any more than cloistered cells of profound the fellows of the colleges are 33 wio alo have suites of rooms looms ample gu gustatory gustavor stator V provision for the earthly man and revenues cpr gentlemanly tle manly support that they may give thenis elve elTe utterly to study and in many cases study th that makes other men lean is blessed to these fellows even as was the simple pulse pulsa to the companion of daniel one can scarcely realize the tile treasures of or literature and of art which are gathered into this city beside the he libraries of each co college colece lege which trus iris ar large there is library with books alid and arran manuscripts enough to turn the heads of tb the whole nation each college ilat has in profusion besides architectural tec tural treasure busts and statues of distinguished men pictures by all nil tile the great mater masters of art in great numbers prints print 1 coins colas and literary and archal archaeological curiosities without num ber her yer and cabinets of natural history I 1 stood in a the tho midst of such treasures as helpless and ani as hopeless of ever looking at them thern with a anor more individual in cognition as I 1 was when I 1 first tint trod irod a prairie jour journeying nevin from dawn lii till ill dark through the dwarf floral or 4 groves and beheld behem millions of acres of flowers I 1 passed by rare treasures without a look which at another time would have ea eagerly fagerli gerli geril occupied hours the shamim iliad war was sated with literary riches in the same mood I 1 stood before the busts and portraits of En glands most illus triau laun raun names but a volume would not suffice to ie record the experience of a single hour even tf it my memory could compass the blessed I 1 with words few places affected me more than thail the libraries and especially the bodler in library rep reputed futej utej to a million Tn illion printed books and manuscripts I 1 walked solemn solemnly lv and reverently among the alcoves and through the hails halls as if in fit the pyramid of embalmed embalm ed souls puls it wa wad their ilfe life their heart their mind that they treasured in these book urns silent as they lare iare are should all the emotions that went to their creation have utterance could the world itself I 1 contain the various sound they longed for fame here it is to stand s silently ille fill y or ages apes moved only to bo be dusted and catalogued cataloguer cataio catalo tio alo gued a d I 1 valued only as units in the ambition ambitions tot aliArd gazed at occasionally by men as ignorant borant t as I 1 am of their name their place their linan language and their worth indeed unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men so that they shai draw from them as from well wells there is no diore immortality to the thought and feelings of tha soul than to the muscles and tile the bones A library is but the souls burial ground it is this tb land of shadows yet one is is impressed with the thought the he labor and the struggle represented in fit this vast catacomb of or books who could dream by the lh placid waters that issue from the level mouths of brooks into the lake all the plunges the whirls the divisions and fo amig foaming rushes that had brought them down to the tha trin tranquil quil tuii exit and who can guess through jh what channels of disturbance and experiences of sorrow the heart i passed that lias emptied into this dead ded sea of books it seemed to me that I 1 was like one wha who walked in the forests of the tropics astounded at the ei gigantic antic growths and at their uselessness centuries had nursed them to their present preset sei set i t stature st a t ar e but not one on ill in ten thousand of them tin tiu m wilt will ever be sought for comi commerce commence nerce or for nse use where they stand they will drop and where they fall they will decay dec ay it is always so ilfe life striking its roots into ilia tile dead and alid feeding upon decay NUTRITION mutton IP is the most nutritive of animal food and contains 29 per cent t tive live e matter t to 0 74 pounds of water wheat flour contains 90 per cent t to 10 of water I 1 corn meal meat 91 percent of nutriment to tolof 9 of wate water r i t contain 22 lq iq 1 12 2 per cent of nutriment to 77 1 2 of water tu turnips snips contain 4 12 1 2 per cent of nutriment t U 95 12 1 2 ot of water w iter Cali cabbage bage is is a little more nutritious containing 7 12 1 2 percent per cent of nutriment if I 1 the most nutritious of all vegetable food however is is the white while bean wh ww ch yields 95 per cent of nutriment to 10 5 pounds of wafer of the fruits olp HIP cucumber is is the least autri eions bious and in d plums the most i fish are the lle ile tie least ikast nutritious f anicil food the method of vines which produce product the famous grapes that supply the tile parks market consists in in allowing the plants very little room in tn grow either branches or their root and in in keeping lee iee puig the latter very near the surface of the ground each vive rive vine is 13 only nl A owed towed to a space spare cf about six eix feet fi otlia the walls are supplied Eup cup plied piled by ayn a malti multi tuce tide lif if the error in n growing frowin ger gar grapes 0 pes in britain cont con coni t lri iii in training them into el elevations evat ions they rip rr best beast v when ben beh trai beof reff pear rear the file ground around in in open air alc air the heat heal houses honses is an axce duo dun pan ii w ii france resemble pian plan plantations tati erts eris of rons gons bushe with the tiie bunah clat tto too the soil roi lUhe lube uhe the heyt heat of ahill AbiLL prim pelm